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Worse still, they had got her sister the same scooter - but Michelle was too afraid to plug the other one in.

After posting pictures of the scooter on the Facebook group Spotted Spalding, Michelle, 37, told Lincolnshire Live : "We had charged them for 12 hours before Christmas, the kids played with them and ran down the battery.

"We plugged it in and I walked away and then was a really bright light, the electric went off and Rosie was screaming.

"Someone thought a car had hit the house or a gun had been fired.

The warning over the Zinc Volt Electric Scooter has been posted on Facebook

"It was scary - because she was screaming I thought the plug had hit her.

"I found the plug under the tree with a bit of smoke around it, one of the cylinders in it had gone."

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Michelle said she had bought the scooter from Halfords, which has since replaced it and told her if any more problems arise they will upgrade their scooters.

A spokesperson for the Halfords store in Spalding said: "We have not had any other incidents reported to us yet.

The warning over the Zinc Volt Electric Scooter has been posted on Facebook

"We did exchange the scooters and have fed the details of the incident back to our product team, as if there is something wrong, they will need to be recalled - but it is an isolated incident at the moment.

"It was an issue with the plug itself, not the scooter as such."

A spokesman for Halfords later added:“We are very sorry this has happened. We take the quality and safety of all our products extremely seriously, and our team are looking into this isolated incident. We have exchanged the scooter, apologised to the customer and will now investigate the cause.”